During the last election economics were on everyone’s minds. Despite the greater economy being healthy with an extraordinary job market not seen since the 1960s, people told pollsters that they were extremely upset about the high cost of living that had been brought on by the disruption of the pandemic and took a couple of years to finally sort out. In poll after poll, Americans said that inflation was the biggest problem facing the nation. When asked what he planned to do about this, then candidate Donald Trump’s only answers were “tariffs!” and ” growth.” It was the cure all for every economic pain that ailed you. Here he is answering a question about what specific legislation he would propose to deal with the high cost of child care. Yes, you guessed it. Tariffs. He promised over and over again that he was going to lower the cost of living and he made it clear that the way he planned to do it was with his beloved tariffs. Well, we’re about to find out how that’s going to work. Over the weekend, Trump followed through on his threats to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada and 10% on China, ostensibly because of immigration and fentanyl coming over the borders which is ridiculous. There’s no need to discuss Trump’s obsession with immigration except to say that Mexico has been cooperating fully with US demands and there simply is not a problem with illegal immigration at the Canadian border except maybe…